Autumn of socks
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bunnBought a pile of Tesco socks, despite my objection to Tesco on their strategy of absurd drama-mongering press releases, like the Marmite thing. Honestly, Tesco always run that kind of story and people always fall for it and share the latest story that is 100% calculated to catch the eye by being zeitgesty and a bit controversial, support the Tesco brand narrative that they are the champions of cheapness and then softly and silently vanish away afterwards like a boojum. All Tesco news stories are boojums, except for the odd one that they'd prefer you not to know about, involving accounting scandals.
Anyway, I went to the women's sock section, and it was full of small, elegant and often rather frilly or decorated socks. None of them looked warm. You could buy plain black ones, but they were thin and clearly designed for wearing with Smart Womanly Shoes, not stomping through mud in boots.
So I went to the mens section again and stocked up on thick, warm socks in attractive shades of blue, purple and green, for noticeably less than it would have cost me to buy thin chilly Woman Socks. Fortunately I am blessed with relatively large feet.
FEET HAVE NO GENITALS, TESCO. I really don't understand why all socks are not presented in one row, going from Very Small to Very Big. I don't object to the existence of thin socks with sparkly kittens on, but I reckon that at least 80% of dogwalkers I meet are female, and there was not a single sock in the 'women's section' that was well-adapted to that sort of life.
ETA: yeah, yeah, I know. Don't give them money and then go away and moan about them on the internet : take the money elsewhere to someone who does it right. But I'm SO lazy and also I have this internet right here to whinge into!
Anyway, I went to the women's sock section, and it was full of small, elegant and often rather frilly or decorated socks. None of them looked warm. You could buy plain black ones, but they were thin and clearly designed for wearing with Smart Womanly Shoes, not stomping through mud in boots.
So I went to the mens section again and stocked up on thick, warm socks in attractive shades of blue, purple and green, for noticeably less than it would have cost me to buy thin chilly Woman Socks. Fortunately I am blessed with relatively large feet.
FEET HAVE NO GENITALS, TESCO. I really don't understand why all socks are not presented in one row, going from Very Small to Very Big. I don't object to the existence of thin socks with sparkly kittens on, but I reckon that at least 80% of dogwalkers I meet are female, and there was not a single sock in the 'women's section' that was well-adapted to that sort of life.
ETA: yeah, yeah, I know. Don't give them money and then go away and moan about them on the internet : take the money elsewhere to someone who does it right. But I'm SO lazy and also I have this internet right here to whinge into!
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Date: 2016-10-18 07:23 am (UTC)I bought my last set a few years ago, so I can't guarantee they are still awesome, but these are the socks I really really love: https://www.foottraffic.com/product/Bamboo_Socks/No-Show_Multi_Pack_Socks
I like them even better than the K-Mart cotton socks I used to love that they no longer make. They are SO comfy, and they seem to wear pretty well, though my fiance has at this point lost all but one of those socks, so I cannot wear them until I buy more, which I just won't do until we buy a washer & dryer next month.
My fiance has lost 10 times more socks than I have worn out, no exaggeration, in the 7 1/2 years we've lived together. It drives me up the wall. I hate not having socks, but then I also hate buying them because I know he's just going to lose them. He has also lost about 1/2 of my fabric menstrual pads via the washer and dryer. He's in general a fantastic guy - super sweet, great temperment, takes good care of me (I'm disabled and can't contribute much around the house, and I need help with my service dog), but I swear, the man is the least observant adult I've ever met. And so my socks and pads and occasionally even underwear wander off. The worst one was when he forgot about my $250 sheets at the laundromat. Of course they were gone when he went back the next day. I was furious. They were the nicest bedding I'd ever bought myself, and I adored them, and I haven't been able to find anything of equal quality since. They were ultra-smooth and crisp and delightful.
But back to the socks. The two main advantages of bamboo over cotton are that it naturally discourages bacterial growth and it wicks way better than cotton, keeping your feet drier. This has the knock-on effect of less foot odor, to boot.